Inequality & Distribution
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James Boyce Wins 2016 Leontief Award for Work on Environmental Inequality
Oct 11, 2016
Institute grantee Boyce cited for integrating ‘ecological, developmental and justice-oriented approaches’ into economics
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Three Things to Know to Hold Wells Fargo Accountable
Oct 11, 2016
Justice requires that the media, policy makers, and the public understand why corporations engage in misconduct and fraud
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Are Our Earnings Really Our 'Just Deserts'?
Oct 5, 2016
A new paper by Nancy Folbre offers an evidence-based refutation of ‘just-world’ assumptions
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Class Divide: Same Street, Different Destinations
Oct 3, 2016
Marc Levin highlights the recent effects of hyper-gentrification in New York City’s West Chelsea, focusing on an intersection where an elite private school sits directly across the street from public housing projects.
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New Evidence Shows Gender Inequality in Top Incomes
Sep 29, 2016
Research by INET grantees Atkinson, Casarico and Voitchovsky shows that women are starkly underrepresented in top earning brackets across a range of different countries
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VP Biden Cites Lazonick in Critique of Stock Buybacks
Sep 28, 2016
Vice President warns that corporate stock buybacks restrict America’s long-term prosperity, citing the research of Institute grantee William Lazonick who has long argued the same
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The Economic Legacy of Racism
Sep 28, 2016
If additional education is not the solution to racial inequality, what is?
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The Nobel Prize in Economics: Time for a Return to Social Democracy
Sep 26, 2016
An award created as a concession to market-minded bankers needs to recognize the centrality of social-democratic policies to the wellbeing of industrialized economies
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Why gender remains a central focus in tackling economic inequality
Sep 22, 2016
Remarks by IMF managing director Christine Lagarde remind us why gender remains a major research and policy focus for the Fund — and for the Institute for New Economic Thinking
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How economic policy drives European (dis)integration
Sep 22, 2016
The Eurozone is (quietly) disintegrating as ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ countries continue on paths of economic divergence. That disintegration is reinforced by self-defeating policies shaped by a macroeconomic model that mimics and reinforces the divisions between ‘winners’ and ‘losers’
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The Outlook for the Global Economy
Sep 22, 2016 | 06:00—07:30
An exclusive conversation with Richard Batley, Head of Macroeconomics at Lombard Street Research.
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The Private Debt Crisis
Sep 21, 2016
China is drowning in it. The whole world has too much of it. History suggests: This won’t end well.
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Why Corporate CEO Pay is Routinely Undercounted
Sep 15, 2016
An Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper by William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins reveals that much reporting on executive pay relies on systems of measurement that underreport real compensation
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Do U.S. Economists Ignore Inequality?
Sep 14, 2016
Painting economics as blind to inequality may be overstating matters, but for too long efforts to explain it have been self limiting. Now, new economic thinkers are willing to pose uncomfortable questions.
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European Ruling Highlights Apple's Corrupted Business Model
Aug 31, 2016
There is much for U.S. authorities to learn from the European example of forcing corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, but more far-reaching oversight of executives’ allocation of resources is also required